My tax guy sent me a tiny CD and, full of doubt, I stuck it in my MacBook Pro, where it remains. How do I get it out without taking apart my machine?
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
Et tu Brutus?
Fashion yourself a tool, stiff card is good, make a large L that you can insert and use it to fish the disk out. Holding the Mac on its side with the slot facing down is good, needs 4 hands though.
If it got mounted. You may have to do the card thing and use the eject key also. If all this gives you trouble. Still using the card ,roll a small piece of electrical tape and stick it on the card so as to have a sticky side up and insert it in so as to stick to the cd and help to pull it out. The card would be inserted with the sticky side down.
my ginger wrote:
If it got mounted. You may have to do the card thing and use the eject key also.
If what got mounted, or are you actually replying to someone else?
Sorry. That was meant for BRUTUS 775. Clicked on the wrong post.
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Hey, so did you get it out?
Thanks for the checkmark and that's the kind of thing you only do once!
Yup, that's a one time deal for sure. I didn't want to stick anything in there, and it hadn't engaged, so following some of the advice in the link you posted I turned off the machine and simply shook the little ******* out of there. I was able to grab it with my fingers no problem. Much better and simpler than sticking things in there haha. The solution was so simply I'm embarrassed I didn't come up with it on my own.
Thanks for your help!
And thanks to everyone who responded, in case you see this reply.
cheers 🙂
I turned off my machine and shook it out! Thanks to everyone for the responses.
Great, glad you got it out of there!
"The solution was so simply I'm embarrassed I didn't come up with it on my own."
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Help, I've got a small CD stuck in my MacBook Pro. How do I get it out?
